Pharmacological inhibition of JNK-MAPK disrupts cigarette smoke-induced RUNX2/Galectin-3 -driven EMT and cancer stemness in lung adenocarcinoma cells
Cigarette smoke (CS), a major driver of lung cancer (LC), promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and stemness resulting in metastasis, therapy resistance, and recurrence, but the precise mechanism is elusive. Building on our earlier identification of Runt related transcription factor-2 (RUNX2) and Galectin-3 (Gal-3) as mediators of CS-induced EMT, in this study, we aimed to identify a po
